Welcome back to flag slash fan Friday.

Hope you like the Papua New Guinea episode.

So as you know, it is the part where we talk about the things that didn't quite make it into the video.

For small, small mistake, it was actually Kun do drum.

Second, I wanted to talk a little bit more about hitting Mo to the other official language of Papua New Guinea.

It's kind of really only spoken in this south and in the capital area by Port.

Moore's Be one of the last surviving German Creoles in the world was made in Papua New Guinea, owns a deutsche.

It's only spoken by about 100 people, and most of them live in Australia and some of the ethno linguistic groups.

The people are completely separated by gender every single day, apart from a brief amount of time when the husband and wife get married and when their Children are born cargo cults During war times, many airplanes would drop off supplies and remote areas.

Many times, the people living there had never even had any contact with outsiders.

So when they see these huge loads of cargo coming from the sky, it kind of made them admonish and revere the gift givers from above to the point where it kind of became a religion and hence the cargo cults.

There's actually really interesting one in the island of Tanna for Vanuatu, but we'll save that for the vital Otto episode.

There was a section in the video where I talked about the controversies of the country.

I did ask you guys if there are any controversies and issues of the country you'd like me to highlight.

For one, Papa New Guinea does have a known, high recorded index of human rights abuses against the populist, specifically in the sexual assault category, mostly against women.

Often lack of access to courts and police means that reports are left unaddressed.

In addition, many people have complained about the government officials misappropriating public funds.

And another thing.

Pop winds are tired of being called cannibals.

Since in the past, many tribes were documented to have practiced the act.

Today it is illegal and claimed that cannibalism is eradicated from the country.

However, if we have to be completely honest and certain obscure, isolated tribes, it's not easy to be completely sure.

But they hope it is, and it probably is.

And yeah, other than that, they have one of the world's only few poisonous birds, so that's just about it.

Otherwise, we gotta talk about the flag.

So without further, do you Oh my gosh.

Papua New Guinea has so many people, groups and languages and customs and traditions and animals and blah blah blah.

It's very interesting country to research.

And speaking of animals, there's one on the flag.

The flag is split diagonally into black and red triangles.

In the hoist is the Southern Cross, the famous constellation found in the Southern Hemisphere.

In the further fly side, Araki, on a bird of Paradise, the national bird is silhouetted in yellow, red and black have long been traditional colors of many Papua New Guinean tribes.

The color can be found all over their traditional body pains, pottery masks, artifacts and so on.

Although the colors were also used in the former German Empire flag, which had colonized them prior to 1918 there's no correlation between the two and keep in mind.

Prior to this, they had various flags, according to each of the various powers that took over them in the north or south.

Remember that little skit we did in the history section under the British and Australians?

They had a few different territory flags.

Japan had a quick moment in World War two, where they kind of took over on the north side and most of the island's course.

We already mentioned the German's leading up to their independence from Australia.

There was actually a proposed flag that looked like this.

It never actually happened, though, when they competed at sports events.

Sometimes they would use this flag under the territory off Papua under Australia.

And yeah, that is just about it.

For flags now, the national emblem, the national emblem is pretty simple and illustrative of the images that symbolize the country as a whole.

On top, you find the national bird, the rocky on a bird of paradise as depicted on the flag.

But in all of its wonderful color and detailed glory, the birds perched on a traditional kun do drum, which is used intertribal e amongst many of the peoples and ethnic groups of Papua New Guinea.

They come in all different patterns and sizes, yet followed the same shape and format of an hourglass with a handle on the side.

Finally splicing the backside of the drum and protruding on the left and right is a traditional Papuan spear, the traditional weapon of choice for many people, groups throughout the country.

And keep in mind.

Sometimes the coat of arms can also have the words Papua New Guinea inscribed below the entire image.

Interesting to note that the Iraqi on a bird of paradise was also depicted on the coat of arms during the German colonization years.

What?

The Brits and the Aussies in the South were a little more boring.

We just used to crown to show that it was part of the Commonwealth and they used an acronym of letters or whatever.

Yeah, that's pretty much it for the symbolism of Papua New Guinea.

Now we go to jog your fan mail time.

All right, so we're back to fan Friday.

As you guys know, we always need guest stars like we always usually do.

So come on in, Miss Hannah.

And the thing back there, Caleb.

Alright, guys.

So, as you know, we always start off with postcards.

Thank you.

Uh, please write your names.

Boulevard from Denmark.

Thank you for sending this cool postcard.

Luna is girl from south Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Oh, this is this postcard.

Is my trip to Mexico.

All right?

Myth.

Ole or Mr Cole from Melbourne sends us a postcard from Norfolk Island's little context.

Theologies Pronounce it Mel bitten.

But yeah, Albert's okay, they get they get that a lot.

I get that a lot.

Mel Moon Bob Stag.

Thank you.

Marcel and his three friends from Slovakia.

But they visited Russia.

Sweet.

Speaking of Slovakia, this young fellow's name is Judah is currently visiting Slovakia.

This is Andrew.

He is a rat at the Virginia Military Institute, scratching himself.

What is around in the military?

I want you, Hannah, with no context to explain what a rat is a rat in the military.

It's somebody who is enlisted and the lowest rank.

And that's to climb their way up to the top.

Do what if this is an actual, like genetic modifications and we got two postcards from Malaysia.

One is from Joanna on the other one is from Bob.

All right.

We got a postcard here from Aiden.

Um, they took a trip to Washington to go whale watching.

You guys seen a whale ever Ever know I've seen the whales in my life there, walking around.

A Fulla from Pakistan has visited Islamabad during the summer.

And this is a post company Dane who visited San Francisco Bay.

The most expensive place in the USA.

This young fellow's name is Brett.

I can't pronounce that.

You read it yourself.

Oh, Bernie, I This postcard from Adriana she sent us a card from Poland is pretty cool.

This from John.

He actually visit one of my favorite places in the country Monument Valley.

And he said he went there because I mentioned it in one of my videos and it was one of my favorite places.

And he's like, Why don't I go there?

Peter from Slovakia.

He loves your show.

And I said, Hawkins, that's actually sold South Korea.

Oh, greetings from Seoul.

This is from Kurt.

He is from New Zealand, but he's visiting Fiji.

You didn't write your name?

You just said hello from Newfoundland.

Newfoundland?

So Canada.

Newfoundland.

All right, we've got Coast Guard here from Tyler.

This is the Petrified Forest National Park.

Very scary.

You've been there?

No, it's petrified.

Scared?

What do they call it?

That Paul.

Yeah, well, you're a man of geography because one time trees solidify and calcify and become those things.

That's petrified Wood.

I was hoping for a demo.

Answer.

00 you want me to be funny?

Okay, well, you got e o.

You gotta give me, like, a little nudge If you want me to say something witty and otherwise I'm just gonna get into the fact mod stuff.

Well, actually electrified.

Petrified for you guys doing better than me in this episode, I swear.

All right, this is from Mirage.

He is on holiday in Japan.

I'd like you to address me by name in the next postcard.

Nobody ever.

Oh, guys Send killed some more stuff.

The last postcard.

They were like Paul and anyone else.

Everyone.

Oh, here was Good evening, Barbie.

Noah.

Keep kin.

Anybody else on that guy from Virginia?

The rat from Virginia Way got Adam, whose real clutch performer he went to Rwanda and send a bunch of postcards, postcards.

Brian went to Guatemala.

His cursive is beautiful.

This is from Nobu, Shelly cause and ah ya who are from Maine.

But they live in Japan anyway.

Look at this card.

Can do.

Jerry from Puerto Rico sent us these flags.

Coffee, which I will absolutely try and guess what?

The's socks.

So if you look closely, you could see the fort off San Juan on the socks.

But I think your name is all win from Hawaii, whose parents are of Philippine descent.

Hey, did this really big project where he drew country balls off all the countries we've got?

Melvin.

He says that it's a pity that you did not visit the best province of the world, which is Zeeland.

Um, are you need of a good accountant?

Because I I know all about chances, Melvin.

I got a C p A.

Thank you, but I'm pretty sure you're good at taxes.

So the next one super cool.

These are books from Sam.

He's an American immigrant to Israel.

You wanted to write an accessible, funny book about traveling around the country.

And he knows I want to go to Israel very bad.

So he gave me Paul Book an armada of cats.

Hi, Barbs.

Can Hannah no and Keith, son of a thes are beverages from Belgium.

And no, it's not beer, gin, rum, etcetera.

Hope you'll like it Alexey and Alexandra from Russia.

You guys Alesci, Alexey and Alison.

I want to meet you guys some time cause you guys sent so many cool things.

Who are you?

I want to meet you.

Okay.

Email me.

I want to meet you guys in person because you guys are so cool.

But in the meantime liquor Jin's and dry gin and whatever that is.

As usual, geography now does not endorse underage drinking.

If you're underage, do not drink.

We are of age.

Does that weaken?

Drink?

I hate gin.

I hate gin.

I'm not interested in a little, uh, a little shot of something.

Well, I mean, if you're gonna twist my arm Forbidden fruit of the elephant tree What is that?

Even guys, they're endangered.

That is, that is not out.

That is perfume.

You'll send me some wine.

I drink and as a wine person, get bright ready.

54321 Thio, We just drink perfume.

That was terrible.

Something terrible.

No kidding.

It's perfume fillers.

Dry gin 28 is on the bottle.

It says it was made it a distillery.

Words made in hell.

No additional number.

So that was our shot the test us.

And what we got here is Stefan.

What?

Stefan has sent us a bunch of stuff.

A lot of food.

Good for me.

I haven't eaten today General European foods here, which is gonna be great snacks.

I don't see a Serbian hat.

How many times we have to tell you guys to stop sending us meth?

Who?

Turkish delights.

Hey, there you go.

Go for it.

And, uh, you know, he he likes putting his Serbian culture on display.